The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine, Volume 1Arthur Jewitt 1817 |
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... beautiful , and the woods , which on each side grace the sloping hills , add a softness to the feature , and render it delightful . The land too is highly cultivated , and comfort and neatness are here visible in every field . 14 On the ...
... beautiful , and the woods , which on each side grace the sloping hills , add a softness to the feature , and render it delightful . The land too is highly cultivated , and comfort and neatness are here visible in every field . 14 On the ...
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... beautiful water , skirted by another wood , all conspiring , to give an air of sombrous melan- choly to the scene , the first view of the ruined gateway burst unexpectedly on the sight , and presented a picture rich in every ...
... beautiful water , skirted by another wood , all conspiring , to give an air of sombrous melan- choly to the scene , the first view of the ruined gateway burst unexpectedly on the sight , and presented a picture rich in every ...
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... beautiful effect of light and shade ; indeed , the great interest of the view , arose out of it entirely . It was one of those fortunate incidental combinations that the artist is so anxious to The walk in which I stood , was dark ; its ...
... beautiful effect of light and shade ; indeed , the great interest of the view , arose out of it entirely . It was one of those fortunate incidental combinations that the artist is so anxious to The walk in which I stood , was dark ; its ...
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... . Some years ago this Dale must have been more beautiful than it is at present , for the last twenty years almost the whole of the labourers in Middleton and Eyam have been employed in breaking down the NORTHERN STAR . 13.
... . Some years ago this Dale must have been more beautiful than it is at present , for the last twenty years almost the whole of the labourers in Middleton and Eyam have been employed in breaking down the NORTHERN STAR . 13.
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... beautiful shrubbery , and over- topped with trees of various kinds . At the foot of the hill runs the Don- caster road , and beyond a narrow slip of garden. * ་ ར་ ར་ ར་ ་་་ ་ ར་བ་ ར་. NORTHERN STAR . 17 Remarks on Askerne.
... beautiful shrubbery , and over- topped with trees of various kinds . At the foot of the hill runs the Don- caster road , and beyond a narrow slip of garden. * ་ ར་ ར་ ར་ ་་་ ་ ར་བ་ ར་. NORTHERN STAR . 17 Remarks on Askerne.
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Page 200 - Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Page 200 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old...
Page 24 - This loop they take out with their shingling-tongs, and beat it with iron sledges upon an iron plate near the fire, that so it may not fall in pieces, but be in a capacity to be carried under the hammer. Under which they, then removing it, and drawing a little water, beat it with the hammer very gently, which forces cinder and dross out of the matter ; afterwards, by degrees...
Page 345 - Her sorrows through the night; and, on the bough, Sole-sitting, still at every dying fall Takes up again her lamentable strain Of winding woe; till, wide around, the woods Sigh to her song, and with her wail resound.
Page 23 - Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned, for then it will loop, ie melt and run together in a mass. After it is burnt, they beat it into small pieces with an iron sledge, and then put it into the furnace (which is before charged with...
Page 23 - The use of this burning is to mollify it, that so it may be broke in small pieces ; otherwise if it should be put into the furnace as it comes out of the earth, it would not melt, but come away whole. " Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned, for then it will loop, ie melt and run together in a mass.
Page 24 - ... then removing it, and drawing a little water, beat it with the hammer very gently, which forces cinder and dross out of the matter ; afterwards, by degrees, drawing more water, they beat it thicker and stronger 'till they bring it to a bloom, which is a four-square mass of about two feet long. This operation they call shingling the loop. This done, they immediately return it to the finery...
Page 23 - The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of sandstone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout ; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow.
Page 48 - ... when observations have been making on the sun, to take notice of every cloud that interrupted the observation, almost as justly as they who could see it. He could tell when any thing was held near his face, or when he passed by a tree at no great distance, provided...
Page 40 - And, though the weight of reasons cannot be taken with the precision of algebraic quantities, yet, when each is thus considered separately and comparatively, and the whole lies before me, I think I can judge better, and am less liable to make a rash step; and in fact I have found great advantage from this kind of equation, in what may be called moral or prudential algebra.